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He favors crappie jigging rods by BnM and Jenko, as well as a rear-mounted trolling motor setup created by a company named Crappie Brakes, in Batesville.

Some anglers rock extra-long rods-10 to 15 feet-for vertically jigging cover from a boat or getting extra length on their casts. But those are cumbersome for other presentations.

Unlike the previous brushpiles I had fished, ones found in 15-20 feet of water, this one was in a depth of 11 feet, with ...

When the jig finally hit the water, Martin began a slow, steady retrieve. After three turns on his reel, his ultralight rod pretzeled. A pound-plus crappie fought its way to the boat.

Paired with a Clam Spooler Elite reel, he can drop down quickly to big slab crappies with jigging spoons or jigs paired with plastics for the right amount of balance and tip drop on the noodle rod.

He was fishing for crappie at Lake Fork when he hooked a crappie on 1/16-ounce jig rigged on a 4 1/2-foot ultralight spinning rod matched with eight-pound line.

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This year it was long-pole jigging or, as he called it, ‘Power Jigging.’ Unlike so many Dixie-inspired tactics for crappie, this technique involves just one rod per person.